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Kathleen McDermott

Executive Editor for History

“I acquire general interest and academic books across a wide range of history. I look for works with broad appeal and original arguments, books that engage readers eager to learn about the past and that advance scholarship in the academic community. One of the joys of working on history books is having a passionate audience; history readers revel in new information, new ideas, new perspectives. I have been one of those readers my entire life, and I want the books I publish to be part of the discussions and debates in that lively world. Among the many fields I cover are American history of any period; environmental history; Atlantic history; medieval to modern European history, including eastern Europe and Russia; military history, the modern Middle East; Asian history; and Latin American history. I am particularly interested in books that cross borders and consider global contexts.”

Contact: [email address] • @historicallyKM

Recent Books

Cover: Follow the New Way: American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change, by Melissa May Borja, from Harvard University Press

Follow the New Way: American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change
Melissa May Borja

Cover: The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community, by Megan Brown, from Harvard University Press

The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community
Megan Brown

Cover: The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, by Marie Favereau, from Harvard University Press

The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
Marie Favereau

Cover: Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s, by Julian Gewirtz, from Harvard University Press

Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
Julian Gewirtz

Cover: Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, by Kathryn Gin Lum, from Harvard University Press

Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
Kathryn Gin Lum

Cover: The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas, by Monica Muñoz Martinez, from Harvard University Press

The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
Monica Muñoz Martinez

Cover: The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface, by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, from Harvard University Press

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface
Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Cover: When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo–American Alliance, by Michael S. Neiberg, from Harvard University Press

When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo–American Alliance
Michael S. Neiberg

Cover: Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom, by Kathryn Olivarius, from Harvard University Press

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
Kathryn Olivarius

Cover: Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story, by Richard Rabinowitz, from Harvard University Press

Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story
Richard Rabinowitz

Cover: Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery, by Bruce A. Ragsdale, from Harvard University Press

Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery
Bruce A. Ragsdale

Cover: How the Soviet Jew Was Made, by Sasha Senderovich, from Harvard University Press

How the Soviet Jew Was Made
Sasha Senderovich

A Little Book about the Big Bang, by Tony Rothman, from Harvard University Press

Recent News

Alessio Terzi, author of Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe, argued at LSE Business Review that there’s nothing anti-capitalist about a shorter workweek; today’s conversations about a three-day weekend are not a shift in paradigm but rather a continuation of the paradigm we have seen for over two centuries.
Bring the War Home author Kathleen Belew spoke at length with Walter Isaacson as part of Amanpour & Co.’s ongoing series “Exploring Hate.”
Joshua Zimmerman discussed Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland with Polish politician Radosław Sikorski on Wolne Radio Europa.
Kathryn Gin Lum, author of Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, explained on the podcast Straight White American Jesus how White American Christians used the label “heathen” in order to name those they deemed not only different, but in need of saving (with “saving” often meaning occupation of native lands, overtaking cultures, and the exclusion of those who refused to, or couldn’t, assimilate).

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